{"id":3145,"date":"2018-07-03T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2018-07-03T15:18:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:18:40","slug":"customer-service-poem-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/03\/customer-service-poem-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Service POEM: On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holed for service<\/strong>
\nA fool 40 minutes<\/strong>
\nBefore it curse to me<\/strong>
\nAwe this while<\/strong>
\nWriting a verse<\/strong>
\nAnd now<\/strong>
\nAwe is write with the whirled<\/strong>
\nAnd still<\/strong>
\nFeeling somewhat loopy<\/strong>
\nWith Muzak<\/strong>
\nAs the soundtrack of my life<\/strong>
\nA borrowed cell<\/strong>
\nTo get my net back<\/strong>
\nAs technically<\/strong>
\nI have no phone<\/strong>
\nWithout it<\/strong>
\nBeating this conundrum again<\/strong>
\nBuy perpetually wading<\/strong>
\nVirtually forever<\/strong>
\nA least weigh<\/strong>
\nPassed an hour<\/strong>
\nAs much after<\/strong>
\nOut to lunch<\/strong>
\nLiable too due the same<\/strong>
\nIn need of stomaching something else<\/strong>
\n…and halve an our later<\/strong>
\nI’m done<\/strong>
\nWith out to lunch<\/strong>
\nBuckeye CableSystem you suck<\/strong>
\nThe poetry write out of me<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote this poem while on hold with Buckeye CableSystem after my internet went out. Unfortunately, my phone runs off of the internet, so I can’t use my phone to call service. I have a landline, no cell phone. I borrowed my neighbor’s cell phone. After 90+ minutes on hold, I decided to hang up and dial again. Fortunately, they answered this time, after about 15 minutes. They had the internet up and running after a few hours. Unfortunately, my phone still doesn’t work, 13 days later, as my telephone provider, Pioneer Telephone, concluded after a week that whatever change Buckeye CableSystem made to the network was blocking the phone service. Perhaps typically, the phone technical service folks didn’t bother to tell me what they had concluded; I just got an e-mail that the ticket was closed. I sent an e-mail copied to both service providers asking them to get together and work this out. I haven’t heard anything yet. Perhaps they tried to call me!! I have been pondering stepping up my media sabbaticals. As I will soon enter week three without phone service, I suppose that I should be careful what I pray for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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